The public continues to put their hands in their pockets to provide life-saving support.
Clearly the government do not share this belief, as they are removing funding for life-saving support services".
Kristalina Georgieva, the European Union commissioner for humanitarian aid, toured Pakistan for two days this week and announced that the cash infusion would initially target life-saving support: food, shelter, sanitation, medical care, hygiene kits and drinking water.
In the relatively peaceful north the emphasis was on post-conflict reconstruction and development, whereas in the south the more dire humanitarian picture meant more people were involved in providing life-saving support to their relatives and communities.
Organisations such as my own, Care4Calais, provide on-the-ground, life-saving support to refugees, and estimate that up to 200 are sleeping rough on the streets of Calais.
Thirty four specialist services have been closed since 2010, with four in five BME women now being turned away from refuges because of lack of space when they seek life-saving support.
Tender is a little different from charities like Refuge (which, in a time of reduced funding, also need all the support we can give them, because of the brilliant, life-saving support they give to people who are currently suffering the horrors of domestic abuse).
As a result, it will soon need to "scale back life-saving support", Ms Mercado said.
They are being shipped out with the help of two London charities who say the vehicles will provide life-saving support.
